I purchased a book, entitled "T.S. ELIOT, The Waste Land, a facsimile & transcript OF THE ORIGINAL DRAFTS INCLUDING THE ANNOTATIONS OF EZRA POUND," edited by Valerie Eliot, and published in 1971 by Faber and Faber. The New York Public Library announced, in October 1968, that the original manuscript material was a part of their Berg Collection. 

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I believe, in the initial writing of Part I, Eliot was thinking about a play,

but the whole first page was cut, including the title, at the time of publication.

 

More scholarship is needed with this, so I am posting here,

only Part I, and we can post more, as we learn more together,

and within the month of April, we will post a more clear color pdf file, also.

 

I dream about nuclear waste no longer being,

no longer being brought into being, let it end.

And what is there now, still harming us, and the air, and the water,

and bird songs,

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let it be vitrified, and stored underneath the ground,

and engineers can think again about a new artform.

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Please click on the image of the bird,

to view a copy of Part I of Eliot's original manuscript,

and click on the image of blueberry harvesting,

to see the website for the Berg Collection, at the New York Public Library.

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Please note the book contains a typed transcription

of this version of Eliot's poetic work.

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